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The Teaching of the Apostles.3054
| 3054 This work is
taken, and printed verbatim, from the same ms.
as the preceding, Cod. Add. 14,644, fol. 10. That ms., however, has been carefully compared with another in
the Brit. Mus. in which it is found, Cod. Add. 14,531, fol. 109; and
with a third, in which the piece is quoted as Canons of the
Apostles, Cod. Add. 14,173, fol. 37. In using the second, a
comparison has also been made of De Lagarde’s edition of it
(Vienna, 1856). This treatise had also been published before in
Ebediesu Metropolitæ Sobæ et Armeniæ collectio
canonum Synodicorum by Cardinal Mai. It is also cited by Bar
Hebræus in his Nomocanon, printed by Mai in the same
volume. These three texts are referred to in the notes, as A. B.
C. respectively. [It seems to me that this and the Bryennios
fragment are alike relics of some original older than both. To
that of vol. vii. (p. 377) and the Apostolic Constitutions, so
called, this is a natural preface.] |
At that time Christ was taken up
to His Father; and how the apostles received the gift of the Spirit;
and the Ordinances and Laws of the Church; and whither each one of the
apostles went; and from whence the countries in the territory of the
Romans received the ordination to the priesthood.
In the year three hundred and3055
| 3055 A. omits “three
hundred and.” They are supplied from B. The reading
of C. is 342. | thirty-nine of the kingdom of the Greeks,
in the month Heziran,3056
| 3056 This month
answers to Sivan, which began with the new moon of
June.—Tr. | on the
fourth3057
| 3057 C. reads
“fourteenth.” | day of the same,
which is the first day of the week, and the end of Pentecost3058
| 3058 The day of
Pentecost seems to be put for that of the Ascension. | —on the selfsame day came the
disciples from Nazareth of Galilee, where the conception of our Lord
was announced, to the mount which is called that of the Place of
Olives,3059
our Lord being
with them, but not being visible to them. And at the time of
early dawn our Lord lifted up His hands, and laid them upon the heads
of the eleven disciples, and gave to them the gift of the
priesthood. And suddenly a bright cloud received Him. And
they saw Him as He was going up to heaven. And He sat down on the
right hand of His Father. And they praised God because they saw
His ascension according as He had told them; and they rejoiced because
they had received the Right Hand conferring on them the priesthood of
the house of Moses and Aaron.
And from thence they went up to the city,
and3060
proceeded to an upper room—that in
which our Lord had observed the passover with them, and the place where
the inquiries had been made: Who it was that should betray our
Lord to the crucifiers? There also were made the
inquiries:3061
| 3061 [It is evident that
the apostles had no such ideas until after the vision of St. Peter,
Acts x. 9–35.] | How they
should preach His Gospel in the world? And, as within the upper
room the mystery of the body and of the blood of our Lord began to
prevail in the world, so also from thence did the teaching of His
preaching begin to have authority in the world.
And, when the disciples were cast into this
perplexity, how they should preach His Gospel to men of strange
tongues3062
| 3062 [It is evident that
the apostles had no such ideas until after the vision of St. Peter,
Acts x. 9–35.] | which were
unknown to them, and were speaking thus to one another: Although
we are confident that Christ will perform by our hands mighty works and
miracles in the presence of strange peoples whose tongues we know not,
and who themselves also are unversed in our tongue, yet who
shall teach them and make them understand that it is by the name of
Christ who was crucified that these mighty works and miracles are
done?—while, I say, the disciples were occupied with these
thoughts, Simon Cephas rose up, and said to them: My brethren,
this matter, how we shall preach His Gospel, pertaineth not to us, but
to our Lord; for He knoweth how it is possible for us to preach
His Gospel in the world; and we rely on His care for us, which He
promised us, saying: “When I am ascended to my Father I
will send you the Spirit, the Paraclete, that He may teach you
everything which it is meet for you to know, and to make
known.”
And, whilst Simon Cephas was saying these things
to his fellow-apostles, and putting them in remembrance, a mysterious
voice was heard by them, and a sweet odour, which was strange to the
world, breathed upon them;3063
| 3063 The reading of B.
and C.: A. reads “answered them.” | and tongues of
fire, between the voice and the odour, came down from heaven3064
| 3064 B. reads
“suddenly.” [The translator interpolates upon
him.] | towards them, and alighted and sat on
every one of them; and, according to the tongue which every one of them
had severally received, so did he prepare himself to go
to the country in which that tongue
was spoken and heard.
And, by the same gift of the Spirit which was given to
them on that day, they appointed Ordinances and Laws—such as were
in accordance with the Gospel of their preaching, and with the true and
faithful doctrine of their teaching:—
1. The apostles therefore appointed:
Pray ye towards the east:3065
| 3065 On praying
toward the east, comp. Apost. Constitutions, ii. 57, vii. 44;
and Tertullian, Apol., 16.
A. C., ii. 57, contains an
interesting account of the conduct of public worship. It may be
consulted in connection with Ordinances 2, 8, and 10,
also.—Tr. | because,
“as the lightning which lighteneth from the east and is seen even
to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be:”3066
that by this we might know and
understand that He will appear from the east suddenly.3067
| 3067 B. and C. read
“at the last.” Ebediesu has “from
heaven.” |
2. The apostles further appointed: On
the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading
of the Holy Scriptures, and the oblation:3068
| 3068 i.e., the
Eucharist.—Tr. | because on the first day of the
week our Lord rose from the place of the dead and on the first day of
the week He arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week He
ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week He will appear
at last with the angels of heaven.3069
| 3069 C. reads “His
holy angels.” |
3. The apostles further appointed: On
the fourth3070
| 3070 For Ords. 3
and 4, see Ap. Const., v. 13–15. | day of the week
let there be service: because on that day our Lord made
the disclosure to them about His trial,3071
| 3071 B. reads “His
manifestation.” |
and His suffering, and His crucifixion, and His death, and His
resurrection; and the disciples were on account of this in
sorrow.3072
4. The apostles further appointed: On
the eve of the Sabbath,3073
| 3073 Lit. “ the
evening,” but used in particular of the evening of the sixth day
of the week, the eve of the seventh: the evening being regarded,
as in Gen. i. 5, as the first part of the day.
Similarly, παρασκευή
, which the Peshito translates by our word, is used in the Gospels for
the sixth day, with a prospective reference to the
seventh.—Tr. | at the ninth
hour, let there be service: because that which had been spoken on
the fourth day of the week about the suffering of the Saviour was
brought to pass on the same eve; the worlds and creatures
trembling, and the luminaries in the heavens being darkened.
5. The apostles further appointed: Let
there be elders and deacons, like the Levites;3074
| 3074 See Ap.
Const., ii. 25. | and subdeacons,3075
| 3075 Comp.
Eccl. Canons, No. 43. The Gr. ὑποδιάκονοι
is here used, though for “deacon” the usual Syriac
word is employed, meaning “minister” or
“servant.” From Riddle, Christian Antiqq., p.
301, with whom Neander agrees, it would seem that subdeacons were first
appointed at the end of the third century or the beginning of the
fourth.—Tr. [See vol. v. p.
417.] |
like those who carried the vessels of the court of the sanctuary of the
Lord; and an overseer,3076
| 3076 ***, equivalent,
not to ἐπίσκοπος,
but to σκοπός =
watchman, as in Ezek. xxxiii. 7. | who shall
likewise be the Guide of all the people,3077
| 3077 For this B. reads
“world.” | like Aaron, the head and chief of all
the priests and Levites of the whole city.3078
6. The apostles further appointed:
Celebrate the day of the Epiphany3079
of our
Saviour, which is the chief of the festivals of the Church, on the
sixth day of the latter Canun,3080
| 3080
January: the Jewish Tebeth. “The former
Canun” is December, i.e., Chisleu.—Tr. | in the long
number of the Greeks.3081
| 3081 The era of
the Seleucidæ, 311 a.c., appears to be
referred to. In this new names were given to certain months, and
Canun was one of them. See p. 666, supra. |
7. The apostles further appointed:
Forty3082
| 3082 Eccl.
Can., No. 69.—Tr. See
Ap. Const., v. 13–15. | days before the day of the passion of
our Saviour fast ye, and then celebrate the day of the passion, and the
day of the resurrection: because our Lord Himself also, the Lord
of the festival, fasted forty days; and Moses and Elijah, who were
endued with this mystery, likewise each fasted forty days, and then
were glorified.
8. The apostles further appointed: At
the conclusion of all the Scriptures other let the Gospel be
read, as being the seal3083
| 3083 Properly
“the sealer:” for, although the word is not found in
the lexicons, its formation shows that it denotes an agent. The
meaning seems to be, that the Gospel gives completeness and validity to
the Scriptures.—Tr. | of all the
Scriptures; and let the people listen to it standing upon their
feet: because it is the Gospel of the redemption of all
men.
9. The apostles further appointed: At
the completion of fifty3084
days after His
resurrection make ye a commemoration of His ascension to His glorious
Father.
10. The apostles appointed: That,
beside the Old Testament, and the Prophets, and the Gospel, and the
Acts (of their exploits), nothing should be read on the pulpit in the
church.3085
| 3085 See Ap.
Const., ii. 57; Teaching of Simon Cephas, ad fin.;
Eccl. Can., Nos. 60, 85.—Tr. |
11. The apostles further appointed:
Whosoever is unacquainted with the faith of the Church and the
ordinances and laws which are appointed in it, let him not be a guide
and ruler; and whosoever is acquainted with them and departs from them,
let him not minister again: because, not being true in his
ministry, he has lied.
12. The apostles further appointed:
Whosoever sweareth, or3086
| 3086 B. and C., as
well as Ebediesu, read “and.” | lieth, or
beareth false witness, or hath recourse to magicians and soothsayers
and Chaldeans, and putteth confidence in fates and nativities, which
they hold fast who know not God,—let him also, as a man that
knoweth not God, be dismissed from the ministry, and not minister
again.
13. The
apostles further appointed: If there be any man that is divided
in mind touching the ministry, and who follows it not with a
steadfast will3087
| 3087 Lit.
“it is not certain (or firm) to him.”—Tr. | , let not this
man minister again: because the Lord of the ministry is not
served by him with a stedfast will; and he deceiveth man only,
and not God, “before whom crafty devices avail
not.”3088
| 3088 The exact words of the Peshito of 1
Sam. ii. 3. The E.V. following the K’ri ולו, instead of the
אלו
of the text, renders “and by Him actions are weighed.”
The Peshito translator may have
confounded the Heb. verb ןכתּ, which appears not to
exist in Aramæan, with its own verb ןקתּ (***), through the
similarity in sound of the gutturals כּ and ק׃ |
14. The apostles further appointed:
Whosoever lendeth and receiveth usury,3089
| 3089 See
Eccl. Canons, No. 44.—Tr. | and is occupied in merchandise and
covetousness, let not this man minister again, nor continue in the
ministry.
15. The apostles further appointed:
That whosoever loveth the Jews,3090
| 3090 Comp. Eccl.
Canons, Nos. 65, 70, 71.—Tr. | like
Iscariot, who was their friend, or the pagans, who worship creatures
instead of the Creator,—should not enter in amongst them and
minister; and moreover, that if he be already amongst them, they
should not suffer him to remain, but that he should be separated
from amongst them, and not minister with them again.
16. The apostles further appointed:
That, if any one from the Jews or from the pagans come and join himself
with them, and if after he has joined himself with them he turn and go
back again to the side on which he stood before, and if he again
return and come to them a second time,—he should not be received
again; but that, according to the side on which he was before, so those
who know him should look upon him.
17. The apostles further appointed:
That it should not be permitted to the Guide to transact the matters
which pertain to the Church apart from those who minister with him; but
that he should issue commands with the counsel of them all, and that
that only should be done which all of them should concur in and
not disapprove.3091
| 3091 See Eccl.
Canons, No. 35.—Tr. |
18. The apostles further appointed:
Whenever any shall depart out of this world with a good testimony to
the faith of Christ, and with affliction borne for His
name’s sake, make ye a commemoration of them on the day on which
they were put to death.3092
| 3092 See the
letter of the Church of Smyrna on the martyrdom of Polycarp, and
Euseb., Hist. Eccl., iv. 15; [also p. 664, note 4,
supra]. |
19. The apostles further appointed: In
the service of the Church repeat ye the praises of David day by
day: because of this saying: “I will bless the
Lord at all times, and at all times His praises shall be in my
mouth;”3093
and
this: “By day and by night will I meditate and
speak, and cause my voice to be heard before Thee.”
20. The apostles further appointed: If any
divest themselves of mammon and run not after the gain of money, let
these men be chosen and admitted to the ministry of the altar.
21. The apostles further appointed:
Let any priest who accidentally puts another in bonds3094
| 3094 The particip.
***, though usually pass., may, like some other participles Peil, be
taken actively, as appears from a passage quoted by Dr. R. Payne Smith,
Thes. Syr., s.v. This would seem to be the only
possible way of taking it here.—Tr. | contrary to justice receive the
punishment that is right; and let him that has been bound receive the
bonds as if he had been equitably bound.
22. The apostles further appointed: If
it be seen that those who are accustomed to hear causes show
partiality, and pronounce the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent,
let them never again hear another cause: thus receiving
the rebuke of their partiality, as it is fit.3095
| 3095 Comp. Ap.
Const., ii. 45 sqq. |
23. The apostles further ordained: Let
not those that are high-minded and lifted up with the arrogance of
boasting be admitted to the ministry: because of this
text: “That which is exalted among men is abominable
before God;” and because concerning them it is said:
“I will return a recompense upon those that vaunt
themselves.”
24. The apostles further appointed:
Let there be a Ruler over the elders who are in the villages, and let
him be recognised as head of them all, at whose hand all of them shall
be required: for Samuel also thus made visits from place to place
and ruled.3096
| 3096 [Note the
Institutions of Samuel, vol. vii. p. 531, and observe the prominence
here assigned to that prophet. Comp. Acts iii. 24.] |
25. The apostles further appointed:
That those kings who shall hereafter believe in Christ should be
permitted to go up and stand before the altar along with the Guides of
the Church: because David also, and those who were like him, went
up and stood before the altar.3097
| 3097 [But note
the case of Ambrose and Theodosius; Sozomen, Eccl. Hist., book
vii. cap. 25.] |
26. The apostles further appointed:
Let no man dare to do anything by the authority of the priesthood which
is not in accordance with justice and equity, but in accordance with
justice, and free from the blame of partiality, let all things be
done.
27. The apostles further appointed: Let the
bread of the Oblation be placed upon the altar on the day on which it
is baked, and not some days after—a thing which is not
permitted.
All these things did the apostles appoint, not
for themselves, but for those
who should come after them—for they were apprehensive that in
time to come wolves would put on sheep’s clothing: since
for themselves the Spirit, the Paraclete, which was in them, was
sufficient: that, even as He had appointed these laws by their
hands, so He would guide them lawfully. For they, who had
received from our Lord power and authority, had no need that laws
should be appointed for them by others. For Paul also, and
Timothy,3098
while they
were going from place to place in the country of Syria and Cilicia,
committed these same Commands and Laws of the apostles and elders to
those who were under the hand of the apostles, for the churches of the
countries in which they were preaching and publishing the
Gospel.
The disciples, moreover, after they had appointed
these Ordinances and Laws, ceased not from the preaching of the Gospel,
or from the wonderful mighty-works which our Lord did by their
hands. For much people was gathered about them every day, who
believed in Christ; and they came to them from other cities, and heard
their words and received them. Nicodemus also, and Gamaliel,
chiefs of the synagogue of the Jews, used to come to the apostles in
secret, agreeing with their teaching. Judas, moreover, and Levi,
and Peri, and Joseph, and Justus, sons of Hananias, and
Caiaphas3099
| 3099 The belief
was common among the Jacobites that Caiaphas, whose full name was
Joseph Caïaphas, was the same person as the historian Josephus,
and that he was converted to Christianity. See Assem., Bibl.
Orient., vol. ii. p. 165. | and Alexander
the priests—they too used to come to the apostles by night,
confessing Christ that He is the Son of God; but they were afraid of
the people of their own nation, so that they did not disclose their
mind toward the disciples.
And the apostles received them affectionately,
saying to them: Do not, by reason of the shame and fear of men,
forfeit your salvation before God, nor have the blood of Christ
required of you; even as your fathers, who took it upon them: for
it is not acceptable before God, that, while ye are, in secret,
with His worshippers, ye should go and associate with the murderers of
His adorable Son. How do ye expect that your faith should be
accepted with those that are true, whilst ye are with those that are
false? But it becomes you, as men who believe in Christ, to
confess openly this faith which we preach.3100
| 3100 [The visible Church
and sacraments are necessary, on this principle, to the conversion of
the world.] |
And, when they heard these things from the
Disciples, those sons of the priests, all of them alike, cried out
before the whole company of the apostles: We confess and believe
in Christ who was crucified, and we confess that He is from everlasting
the Son of God; and those who dared to crucify Him do we
renounce. For even the priests of the people in secret confess
Christ; but, for the sake of the headship among the people which they
love, they are not willing to confess openly; and they have forgotten
that which is written:3101
“Of
knowledge is He the Lord, and before Him avail not crafty
devices.”
And, when their fathers heard these things from their
sons, they became exceedingly hostile to them: not indeed because
they had believed in Christ, but because they had declared and spoken
openly of the mind of their fathers before the sons of their
people.
But those who believed clove to the disciples, and
departed not from them, because they saw that, whatsoever they taught
the multitude, they themselves carried into practice before all men;
and, when affliction and persecution arose against the disciples, they
rejoiced to be afflicted with them, and received with gladness stripes
and imprisonment for the confession of their faith in Christ; and all
the days of their life they preached Christ before the Jews and the
Samaritans.
And after the death of the apostles there were
Guides and Rulers3102
| 3102 This would seem to
have been written anterior to the time when the title of Bishop, as
specially appropriated to those who succeeded to the apostolic office,
had generally obtained in the East. [Previously named as in the
Greek of 2 Cor. viii.
23.] | in the churches;
and, whatsoever the apostles had committed to them and they had
received from them, they continued to teach to the multitude through
the whole space of their lives. They too, again, at their deaths
committed and delivered to their disciples after them whatsoever they
had received from the apostles; also what James had written from
Jerusalem, and Simon from the city of Rome, and John from Ephesus, and
Mark from Alexandria the Great, and Andrew from Phrygia, and Luke from
Macedonia, and Judas Thomas from India:3103
| 3103 For writings
ascribed to Andrew and Thomas, see Apocryphal Scriptures, this
volume, infra. Comp. Eccl. Canons, No.
85.—Tr. There is no mention here of
the Epistles of Paul. They may not at this early period have been
collected and become generally known in the East. The Epistle of
Jude is also omitted here, but it was never received into the Syriac
canon: see De Wette, Einl., 6th ed. p. 342. | that the epistles of an
apostle3104
might be received
and read in the churches that were in every place, just as the
achievements of their Acts, which Luke wrote, are read; that hereby the
apostles might be known, and the prophets, and the Old Testament and
the New;3105
| 3105 See note 10 on
p. 668.—Tr. It is plain from this
that the Epistles were not at that time considered part of what was
called the New Testament, nor the prophets of the Old. | that so might
be seen one truth was proclaimed in them all: that one Spirit
spoke in them all, from one God whom they had all worshipped and had
all preached. And the divers countries received their
teaching. Everything, therefore, which had been spoken by our
Lord by means of the apostles, and which the apostles had
delivered to their disciples, was believed and received in every
country, by the operation3106
| 3106 Lit.
“nod,” or “bidding,” or
“impulse.”—Tr. [See
Tertull., vol. iii. p. 252.] | of our Lord, who
said to them: “I am with you, even until the world shall
end;” the Guides disputing with the Jews from the books of the
prophets, and contending also against the deluded pagans with the
terrible mighty-works which they did in the name of Christ. For
all the peoples, even those that dwell in other countries, quietly and
silently received3107
the Gospel of
Christ; and those who became confessors cried out under their
persecution: This our persecution to-day shall plead3108
| 3108 Lit.
“be an advocate.”—Tr. | on our behalf, lest we be
punished, for having been formerly persecutors
ourselves. For there were some of them against whom death
by the sword was ordered; and there were some of them from whom they
took away whatsoever they possessed, and let them go.3109
And the more affliction arose
against them, the richer and larger did their congregations become; and
with gladness in their hearts did they receive death of every
kind. And by ordination to the priesthood, which the apostles
themselves had received from our Lord, did their Gospel wing its way
rapidly into the four quarters of the world. And by mutual
visitation they ministered to one another.
1. Jerusalem received the ordination to the
priesthood, as did all the country of Palestine, and the parts occupied
by the Samaritans, and the parts occupied by the Philistines, and the
country of the Arabians, and of Phœnicia, and the people of
Cæsarea, from James, who was ruler and guide in the church of the
apostles which was built in Zion.
2. Alexandria the Great, and Thebais, and
the whole of Inner Egypt, and all the country of Pelusium,3110
| 3110 C. reads
“Pentapolis.” | and extending as far as the borders
of the Indians, received the apostles’ ordination to the
priesthood from Mark the evangelist, who was ruler and guide there in
the church which he had built, in which, he also
ministered.
3. India,3111
and all the
countries belonging to it and round about it, even to the farthest sea,
received the apostles’ ordination to the priesthood from Judas
Thomas, who was guide and ruler in the church which he had built there,
in which he also ministered there.
4. Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, and
Galatia, even to Pontus, received the apostles’ ordination to the
priesthood from Simon Cephas, who himself laid the foundation of the
church there,3112
and was priest
and ministered there up to the time when he went up from thence to Rome
on account of Simon the sorcerer, who was deluding the people of Rome
with his sorceries.3113
| 3113 See note 3,
p. 673, infra. |
5. The city of Rome, and all Italy, and
Spain, and Britain, and Gaul, together with all the rest of the
countries round about them, received the apostles’ ordination to
the priesthood from Simon Cephas, who went up from Antioch; and he was
ruler and guide there, in the church which he had built there, and in
the places round about it.3114
| 3114 [The omission of
reference to St. Paul is a token of a corrupt and mediæval text
here.] |
6. Ephesus, and Thessalonica, and all Asia,
and all the country of the Corinthians, and of all Achaia and the parts
round about it, received the apostles’ ordination to the
priesthood from John the evangelist, who had leaned upon the bosom of
our Lord; who himself built a church there, and ministered in his
office of Guide which he held there.
7. Nicæa, and Nicomedia, and all the
country of Bithynia, and of Inner Galatia,3115
| 3115 The reading of
C. The ms. A. gives what Cureton
transcribes as Gothia, which is almost the same as the word rendered
“Inner.” Possibly this explains the origin of the
reading of A. “Galatia” was perhaps accidentally
omitted.—Tr. |
and of the regions round about it, received the apostles’
ordination to the priesthood from Andrew, the brother of Simon Cephas,
who was himself Guide and Ruler in the church which he had built there,
and was priest and ministered there.
8. Byzantium, and all the country of Thrace,
and of the parts about it as far as the great river,3116
| 3116 C. has “the
Danube.” | the boundary which separates from the
barbarians, received the apostles’ ordination to the priesthood
from Luke the apostle, who himself built a church there, and ministered
there in his office of Ruler and Guide which he held
there.
9. Edessa, and all the countries round about
it which were on all sides of it, and Zoba,3117
| 3117 Or
“Soba,” the same as Nisïbis. | and Arabia, and all the north, and the
regions round about it, and the south, and all the regions on the
borders of Mesopotamia, received the apostles’ ordination to the
priesthood from Addæus the apostle, one of the seventy-two
apostles,3118
| 3118 The number
seventy-two may have arisen from the supposition, mentioned in the
Recognitions and in the Apostolical Constitutions, that
our Lord chose them in imitation of the seventy-two elders appointed by
Moses. | who himself
made disciples there, and built a church there, and was priest and
ministered there in his office of Guide which he held
there.
10. The whole of Persia, of the Assyrians,
and of the Armenians, and of the Medians, and of the countries round
about Babylon, the Huzites and the Gelæ, as far as the borders of
the Indians, and as far as the land3119
of Gog and
Magog, and moreover
all the countries on all sides, received the apostles’ ordination
to the priesthood from Aggæus, a maker of silks,3120
| 3120 See note 6 on p.
661. | the disciple of Addæus the
apostle.
The other remaining companions of the apostles,
moreover went to the distant countries of the barbarians; and they made
disciples from place to place and passed on; and there they ministered
by their preaching; and there occurred their departure out of this
world, their disciples after them going on with the work down to
the present day, nor was any change or addition made by them in their
preaching.
Luke, moreover, the evangelist had such diligence
that he wrote the exploits of the Acts of the Apostles, and the
ordinances and laws of the ministry of their priesthood, and whither
each one of them went. By his diligence, I say, did Luke write
these things, and more than these; and he placed them in the hand of
Priscus3121
| 3121 B. reads
“Priscilla,” C. “Pricillas.” Prisca and
Priscilla are the forms in which the name occurs in the New
Testament. | and Aquilus, his
disciples; and they accompanied him up to the day of his death, just as
Timothy and Erastus of Lystra, and Menaus,3122
the first disciples of the apostles,
accompanied Paul until he was taken up to the city of Rome because he
had withstood Tertullus the orator.3123
| 3123 [The failure to
praise the work of him who “laboured more abundantly than
all” others, is noteworthy, and can only be accounted for by
Middle-Age corruptions of the text.] |
And Nero Cæsar despatched with the sword
Simon Cephas in the city of Rome.3124
| 3124 C. adds,
“crucifying him on a cross.” C. also adds,
“Here endeth the treatise of Addæus the apostle.” |
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